3 papers
q-bio.PE2025
Complex multiannual cycles of Mycoplasma pneumoniae: persistence and the role of stochasticity
Bjarke Frost Nielsen, Sang Woo Park, Emily Howerton +3
The epidemiological dynamics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae is characterized by poorly understood complex multiannual cycles. The origins of these cycles have long been debated, and mult…
q-bio.PE2025
Applications of the Vendi score in genomic epidemiology
Bjarke Frost Nielsen, Amey P. Pasarkar, Qiqi Yang +2
The Vendi score (VS), a diversity metric recently conceived in the context of machine learning, with applications in a wide range of fields, has a few distinct advantages over the…
physics.soc-ph2024
The Complex Interplay Between Risk Tolerance and the Spread of Infectious Diseases
Maximilian Nguyen, Ari Freedman, Matthew Cheung +4
Risk-driven behavior provides a feedback mechanism through which individuals both shape and are collectively affected by an epidemic. We introduce a general and flexible compartmen…